The settlement established a Cossack colonel Gerasim Kondratiev, who founded and Sumy. Here is preserved mansion, owned by descendants of Gerasim. Kondratyevs were not as rich as Golitsyn, but thousands of acres owned 5.6. Nikolai Kondratiev, like Tchaikovsky, graduated from Law School in St. Petersburg, but they were not close friends, familiarity was evident, a closer relationship to the school in Peter Ilyich formed with the poet Apukhtin. Kondratiev and Tchaikovsky, presented each other Alex Golitsyn. After that, the young men struck up a correspondence developed into a long-standing friendship. Tchaikovsky first visited here in 1871, and since coming here almost every summer. The family of Peter Ilyich Kondratyevs treated with all sincerity. About the most Kondratiev composer wrote: "I have many friends, but those with whom the soul bends, as, for example, Kondratiev - absolutely not." In the estate of a dear guest allocated a separate wing, which put the piano here Pyotr Ilyich worked. Apparently, a beautiful house with a garden right by the river, was awakened in him an inspiration. Once there was a lovely conservatory, in which even the pineapples were grown. A Kondratiev, who was accustomed to live in a big way, eventually went bankrupt.